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Word: halfbacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Graves who played halfback on the Yale team last year will begin playing fullback next week. He has been laid up the greater part of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/14/1889 | See Source »

Adams, '86, and Holden, '88, coached the 'varsity in the practice game yesterday afternoon. Lee, Harding and Moen played halfback. The team fumbled much, and tackled badly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/31/1889 | See Source »

Roxbury Latin-Rushers: Batchelder, Adams, James, Ware (centre), Kimball, Newell, Hayes; quarter back, H. Cabot; halfback, Sherwin and C. S. Hoag; full-back, Atwater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ninety-two, 32; Roxbury Latin School, 0. | 10/22/1889 | See Source »

...team but is slow in dropping on the ball. Townsend is fast, gets down field well and is an earnest worker. Wurtemberg, M. S., will play quarterback as last year. He is very cool, but is not passing well. Graves, '91, will probably play full back. The candidates for halfback are S. N. Morrison, '92, who played half on the '92 team; Harvey, who played during a half of the Princeton game last fall, McClung and McBride. The men as yet play poorly together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Eleven. | 10/22/1889 | See Source »

...nothing to Harvard. The freshmen kept up their good playing till the latter part of the second half, when they seemed to weaken. Barbour, by a good rush, scored a touchdown, from which a goal was kicked, and it was but a few minutes later that Brooks, Exeter's halfback, touched the ball again behind Harvard's line. The best playing for Exeter was done by Brooks and Barbour; for Harvard, by Brooks, Allen, Baker and Hunt. The teams were as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phillips Exeter, 10; Harvard Freshmen. 4. | 10/29/1888 | See Source »

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